Charles O. Job
- Designer & Professor of Architecture and Design.
- Switzerland
- Member since 2020
Charles Oluwole Job was born in Lagos Nigeria, in sunny West Africa.
He achieved his diploma in Architecture, and a masters degree in Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University, followed by work experience in various architectural practises in London, Paris and Zürich.
Charles was appointed Professor of architectural design theory at the Berne University of Applied Sciences in 2008, where he continues to teach, part time.
Engaged in the fields of temporary architecture, product, furniture and lighting design for international clients, his studio engages with architecture in its variety of scales. A constant quest for simple innovation is the common thread through its wide repertoire of projects.
Charles has served in many International Design Juries, from Design Turkey in Istanbul to the IF Design Awards in Hamburg, Germany.
With a strong interest in transcultural cooperation, Charles has organised and led study trips to Luxor and Cairo in Egypt, Istanbul in Turkey, Lagos and Enugu in Nigeria, and Copenhagen in Norway, where students worked with different design methodologies and varying materials from recycleabe agricultural waste to ceramics, and traditional adobe architecture.
Charles has taken part in, and won numerous international competitions.
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Selection of Awards
2018 Shortlisted, Pape Bird Observation Tower, Latvia
2017 Finalist, pro Helvetia Swiss Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2018
2016 Silver Medal, Holzpixel, Designers Saturday, Langenthal 2016, Switzerland, with BFH
2016 Finalist, Singapore (FDA) Furniture Design Award, 2017
2016 Nominated, Singapore (FDA) Furniture Design Award, 2016
2015 Nominated, Gwangju/ Designboom International Design Biennale, Seoul 2015
2015 Top 100, Design Intelligence Award, Hangzhou, China
2015 Nominated Design Intelligence Award, Hangzhou, China
2014 Finalist, Better Living Challenge, South Africa, with BFH
2013 Finalist, Architecture of Necessity Award, Sweden Flexplypavilion with BFH
2012 1. Prize, International Charente Pavilion Competition, France Flexplypavilion BFH
2012 Gold Award, Materialica Deisgn + Technology Award. Munich, Germany
2011 Acknowledgement Prize, Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction. Casablanca
2008 Finalist, Asahikawa International Furniture Design Competition. Japan
2007 Shortlit, Designboom + de Padova International Design Competition. Italy
2002 Design Report Award, Salone Satellite, Milan. Italy
2001 1. Prize, Oxo / Peugot design Awards. London
2001 1. Prize, Traffic Concept, Wetzikon.Switzerland
1999 1. Prize, (ex aequo) Deutsche Bank Munich, Germany
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